METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ENTERPRISE CONTENT

• US 20110238649A1
• Filed: 06/06/2011
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Crowdstrike, Inc. (CrowdStrike Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Open TEXT SA (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Mckinnon, Cheryl Lynne, Sumner-Smith, Martin, Müller, Florian, Jenkins, Paul Thomas, Timmermans, Matthew David George, Barkley, Daniel Wray, Morton, Willard Carter JR., Boender, Robert W., Howatson, Adam Murray
• Granted Patent: US 8,880,461 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/706
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A method and system for providing a consistent flow documents and data content across different organizational units of a company or agency where the documents and data come from different enterprise systems and data stores but are related to linked processes that share models for organizing the content in the business context and in a format that enables a user to relate the content to the process step or steps they are performing. The system includes a network service that enables a configuration utility to automatically discover the objects and metadata and provides for a mapping of selected fields of the metadata to regions displayed in the user interface view with provision for filtering the data by mapping selected fields to a user input form. Thereby, a business analyst can create solutions without writing and maintaining complex program logic for each combination of presentation environment, enterprise system and data store.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for searching for data, comprising:

determining a model of a content configured for provisioning within a presentation framework based on a process step within a business process;

receiving a content metadata for the content from a selected one of a plurality of content repositories;

exposing, to a process that consumes an object model, an object property-to-property mapping based on mapping the model metadata to the content in a presentation framework; and

searching a search index of a content management repository used for storing the content metadata.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the business process includes parameters identifying resources to perform the business process or defining deliverables.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the model comprises determining a model metadata for a plurality of content of different types.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein searching comprises:

sending a discovery query for the content to a plurality of productivity application environment configured to provide content of the plurality of different types.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

associating an additional activity with the content; and

augmenting the content metadata with additional information associated with the additional activity.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending a discovery query for the content to a plurality of productivity application environment configured to provide content of the plurality of different types.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the search index is an embedded search index.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein exposing the object property-to-property mapping further comprises:

exposing the object property-to-property mapping to a defined group of users within at least one user interface.

9. A system for searching for data, comprising:

a determination component capable of determining a model of a content configured for provisioning within a presentation framework based on a process step within a business process;

a receiver capable of receiving a content metadata for the content from a selected one of a plurality of content repositories;

an exposition component capable of exposing, to a user or a process that consumes an object model, an object property-to-property mapping based on mapping the model metadata to the content in a presentation framework; and

a search engine component capable of searching a search index of a content management repository used for storing the content metadata based on the exposed object property-to-property mapping based on the exposed object property-to-property mapping.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the business process includes parameters identifying resources to perform the business process or defining deliverables.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein determining the model comprises determining a model metadata for a plurality of content of different types.

12. The system of claim 9, further comprising:

adding additional external content data to the content based on an activity within a work flow, wherein adding additional content data comprises;

including content metadata based on an activity within a work flow.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein searching comprises:

sending a discovery query for the content to a plurality of productivity application environment configured to provide content of the plurality of different types.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the search index is an embedded search index.

15. The system of claim 9, the search engine is configured to extract data and content from one or more external data management system and index the extracted data and content in the search index in order to optimize a query expression passed into the search engine.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein exposing the object property-to-property mapping further comprises:

exposing the object property-to-property mapping to a defined group of users.

17. A non-transitory processor readable medium for searching for data, the medium comprising instructions that when executed by a processor causes the processor to perform actions that comprise:

determining a model of a content configured for provisioning within a presentation framework based on a process step within a business process;

receiving a content metadata for the content from a selected one of a plurality of content repositories;

exposing, to a user or a process that consumes an object model, an object property-to-property mapping based on mapping the model metadata to the content in a presentation framework; and

searching a search index of a content management repository used for storing the content metadata.

18. The processor readable medium of claim 17, wherein the search index is an embedded search index.

19. The processor readable medium of claim 18, wherein adding additional content data comprises:

including content metadata based on an activity within a work flow.

20. The processor readable medium of claim 19, comprising further instructions that, when executed, operate to cause one or more computers to perform the operation comprising:

sending a discovery query for the content to a plurality of productivity application environment configured to provide content of the plurality of different types.